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Terms For Slo Flashcards

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Exports

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Sending goods to another country to trade and sell

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Import

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Bringing goods/products into a country to trade

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Globizalization

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Act, process, or policy of making something worldwide in scope or application

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Outsourcing

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Shifting of jobs from one country to another generally for a lower labor price.

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Interdependence

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The reliance of countries on goods, resources and ideas from other countries

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Nationalism

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Pride and loyalty in ones nation

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Imperialism

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The process by which one larger, more powerful nation takes over a smaller, weaker nation through social, political or economic means

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Social Darwinism

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An application of Charles Darwin’s scientific theories of natural selection and the survival of the fittest to the struggles between nations and races; used in the late 1800s to justify imperialism and racism.

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King Louis XVI

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King of France from 1774 to 1792; his unpopular policies, including harsh taxes, helped trigger the French Revolution. Deposed the national convention, he was executed by the guillotine

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Declaration or the rights of man and citizen

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A document that laid out the basic principles of the French Revolution– liberty, equality, and fraternity

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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General; emperor of France; he seized power in a coup d’état in 1799; he led French armies conquering much of Europe, placing his relatives in positions of power

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British east India company

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A joint-stock company granted a royal charter by Elizabeth I in 1600 for the purpose of controlling trade in India

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Berlin conference

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(1884-1885) a meeting at which representatives from European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa

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Unequal treaties

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Trade treaties that China signed under pressure of invasion; gave Western powers trade benefits

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Central powers

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Term for war alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary in WW1

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Allied powers

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Term for alliance of Great Britain, France, Russia, and Serbia in WW1

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The big four

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The four most influential people in drafting the Treaty of Versailles: Wilson, Clemenceau, George and Orlando

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Fourteen Points

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Woodrow Wilson’s plan for world peace, proposed in 1918

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Treaty of Versailles

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Treaty that ended WW1 and punished Germany severely

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War Guilt Clause

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Part of the treaty of Versailles, it forced Germany to say that they alone caused WW1- and that it was therefore right and proper that they had to pay reparations

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League of Nations

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Organization of nations created with hope of ending future wars

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Nicholas II

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Last emperor of Russia. He was overthrown in the Russian revolution

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Adolf Hitler

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Totalitarian dictator of Germany; his invasion of European countries let to WWII. He espoused nations of racial superiority and was responsible for the mass murder of millions of Jews and others in the Holocaust

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Appeasement

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Giving in to aggressive demands in order to avoid war

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Winston Churchill

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British prime minister; he opposed the policy of appeasement and let Great Britain through WWII

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Axis powers

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Side made up of Germany, Japan, Italy, and the Soviet Union

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Allies

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The alliance of Britain, France, and the Soviet Union (1941) in WWII; joined by the United States after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941

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Final solution

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The nazi party’s plan to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and the Soviet Union

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Holocaust

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The killing of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII

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Harry S Truman

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Thirty-third president of the United States; he became president upon the death of Franklin D Roosevelt. He led the United States through the end if WWII and the beginning of the Cold War

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Hiroshima

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A zone of heavy defensive fortifications erected by France along it’s eastern border in the years preceding WWII, but outflanked in 1940 when the German army attacked through Belgium

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Nagasaki

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The second populated area to be devastated by an atomic bomb, on August 9, 1945

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Cold War

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Era of tension and hostility, between the United States and the Soviet Union, that lasted from 1947-1991

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Containment

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The United States policy that involved resisting Soviet aggression in order to contain the spread of communism

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Arms Race

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Struggle between nations to gain an advantage in weapons

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Nonaligned Nations

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Nations refusing to support either the United States or the Soviet Union opting instead to use their combined strength to promote the interests of poorer countries

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Ho Chi Minh

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(1890-1969) Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary leader; president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (north Vietnam) from 1945 to 1969; he wanted to bring communism to south Vietnam

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Domino theory

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The belief during the Cold War that the fall of one non-communist country to communism would cause neighboring non-communist countries also to fall to communists

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Tiananman Square Massacre

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Violent suppression by the Chinese communist government of a large prodemocracy protest in Beijing’s central square in 1989

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Gandhi

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Led the Indian struggle for independence from Great Britain using non-violent resistance and civil disobedience

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Locke

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English philosopher, he devil oped political and economic theories during the Enlightenment. He wrote Two Treaties on government in which he declared that people have a right to rebel against governments that do not protect their rights.

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Scientific method

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A method of inquiry that promotes observing, measuring, explaining, and verifying as a way to gain scientific knowledge

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Galileo

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Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist; his discoveries, including the law or motion of falling objects, put him into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church

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Enlightenment

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A time of optimism where reason could be used to solve human problems from the late 1600a to the late 1700s; also called the age of reason

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Industrial revolution

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A period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production that began in the mid 1700s

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Assembly line

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A mass production process in which a product is moved forward through many work stations where workers perform specific tasks

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Labor union

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An organization representing workers interests, usually to the business owners and politicians

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Factory system

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Is made up of a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled

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